‘It is absolutely crucial that today we deliver on the largest vote in our history when 17.4 million people voted to leave the European Union.’

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He added: ‘We will vote down a withdrawal agreement that will leave us half in and half out of the European Union and that will cost us £39 billion, leave us in a customs union forever with regulations and taxes set by the European Union in relation of trade.

‘And (the deal) will split the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland so for the sake of democracy we have to vote down the deal.’

Jacob Rees-Mogg was mobbed when he left Parliament today (Picture: Adam Smith)

If May loses the vote Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn promised to table a vote of no confidence in the government ‘soon’ but Rees-Mogg believes the Conservative administration will survive.

He said: ‘The Labour Party is playing ducks and drakes with that particular issue (a vote of no confidence) and I don’t think they have made their mind up, they may have got the situation where they cannot avoid calling one but I think a vote of confidence will be safely defeated.’

And when asked how far off Brexit was, he replied: ’73 days.’

Rees-Mogg added: ‘The benefits of Brexit will happen as soon as we leave and they will go on for decades, it will be like how the changes Margaret Thatcher made to our country carried on for 30 years.’

However, the old Etonian does not believe he will always be the target of public attention which his role in Brexit has brought.

He said: ‘It will all be over in a few months, and I’m sure it will not be too long before people point at me and say “didn’t that used to be Jacob Rees-Mogg?”‘